The Gov­ern­ment of Trinidad and To­ba­go has mo­bilised a co­or­di­nat­ed na­tion­al re­lief ef­fort to sup­port Ja­maica fol­low­ing the dev­as­ta­tion caused by Hur­ri­cane Melis­sa.

The Eco­nom­ic Com­mis­sion for Latin Amer­i­ca and the Caribbean (ECLAC) has up­dat­ed its growth pro­jec­tions for the re­gion, es­ti­mat­ing that gross do­mes­tic prod­uct (GDP) will rise 2.4 per cent this year and slight­ly re­duced to 2.3 per cent next year.

CHAT­TOGRAM, Bangladesh – Hav­ing lost their last three T20I se­ries, the West In­dies are try­ing to turn things around against Bangladesh, says vet­er­an play­er Rov­man Pow­ell.

The rhythm of drums, the shim­mer of se­quins, and the soft clip-clop of hooves filled the air as the Heal­ing with Hors­es Foun­da­tion joined To­ba­go’s Car­ni­val last week­end. From its hill­side haven in Buc­coo, the non-prof­it brought a dif­fer­ent kind of en­er­gy to the cel­e­bra­tions—one where com­pas­sion, cre­ativ­i­ty, and Caribbean spir­it danced side by side.

The rev­enue loss from the re­duc­tion of oil and gas pro­duc­tion is hard to cal­cu­late an­nu­al­ly be­cause of fluc­tu­a­tions of var­i­ous kinds. But the rev­enue loss is se­vere and find­ing al­ter­na­tive ways of mak­ing up for the short­fall is not an easy chal­lenge.